Was thinking about The Empire Strikes Back (because it's what one does) and how it balled up the obvious blueprint for "let's make a #StarWars sequel" and threw it in the trash. Every zig you'd expect as a rabid fan (or as a studio exec) is an onscreen zag instead. One of the craziest ones is also one of the most subtle: Han, Luke and Leia, AKA the Big Three, the newly minted cultural icons, are in ONE scene together. They interact for a grand total of 90 seconds.

Good morning! The Last Jedi novelization comes out in PB Tuesday. I'll offer some thoughts from the writing process in roughly chronological order. Hopefully it will be of some interest/answer some of the Qs folks had. (For which thank you.) amzn.to/2zrkytY OK, that prologue. It's *NOT* a vision of a better life for Luke. It's a warning from the Force, which has used a dream to slip through Luke's defenses. In both dream and reality, Luke's life is seemingly tranquil but evil is ascendant everywhere else in the galaxy.